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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
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Subject: Re: 2.2.2, start_if.tun0 and sendmail
In-Reply-To: <87zptarrfx.fsf@luddite.org> from Jay Sachs at "Jun 1, 97 04:36:34 pm"
To: sachs@interactive.net (Jay Sachs)
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 23:59:50 +0200 (MET DST)
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> 
> My 'net connection is made solely via PPP by the following line in
> /etc/start_if.tun0:
> 
>   /usr/sbin/ppp -ddial ondemand >/dev/null 2>&1
> 
> sendmail is configured in /etc/rc.conf with
> 
>   sendmail_enable="YES"   # Run the sendmail daemon (or NO).
>   sendmail_flags="-bd -q30m" # -bd is pretty mandatory
> 
> For whatever reason, sendmail won't daemonize until the ppp connection
> is established.  The problem with this is that the boot-up process
[ ... ] 
> I understand that one other option is to put the ppp startup in
> rc.local, in which case sendmail just breezes by.  But I'd like to
> start up the ppp connection ASAP.

What does /var/log/maillog show? I once had this problem and the reason
was an "unknown" interface address on a point to point interface (10.0.0.1)
During bootup sendmail just stood there and I had to send ^C to it to proceed
with booting. The line in maillog complained about this address not being
resolvabel to a host name. So I put 
10.0.0.1   dummy
in /etc/hosts and sendmail started happily thereafter.


Wolfgang